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2010-08-13 18:31:55

Sight Unseen has a nice fea­ture up this week about Juli­ette War­men­hovem who makes odd con­trap­tions and vess­esls from plas­tic, paper and fiber­glass to cel­e­brate the growth and nur­tur­ing of plant life in domes­tic space. Pic­tured top are a bon­sai incu­ba­tor, left and ger­mi­na­tion ves­sels on the right, includ­ing a plant cut­tings hold­ing tank and a water sup­ply device that helps seedlings sprout. Below, a music box that twirls a potato around on a pedestal, “high­light­ing the hid­den beauty of a potato.” Here’s an excerpt: Her father is a flower farmer.

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Every­day Grow­ing by Juli­ette Warmenhoven

2010-08-12 23:47:01

(TrendHunter.com) The Steam­punk DJ Set is the per­fect music player for fist-pumping art aficionados.

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Upcy­cled Vic­to­rian Music Mak­ers — The Steam­punk DJ Set Will Have You Par­ty­ing Like It’s 1899 (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 03:51:17

Kyle Mer­ri­man is a pho­tog­ra­pher based in Tai­wan, where he’s been for the past 5 years, and he spe­cial­izes in HDR pho­tos. To pro­mote his work Kyle started a site called Brand­KnewMe, it started out as a project to keep fam­ily and friends in touch with his life half around the world. This site started as a plat­form for blogs, pho­tos, and the videos to show to his fam­ily and friends what it’s like to be liv­ing in Taiwan

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Beau­ti­ful HDR Pho­tos by Kyle Merriman

2010-08-12 01:18:02

(TrendHunter.com) The Frevola T7A Tread­mill is an exer­cise machine for the gamer in you. The tread­mill comes equipped with an LCD 17-inch touch­screen TV that you can lis­ten to music on, or bet­ter yet, play your most loved…

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Gam­ing Exer­cise Machines — The Frevola T7A Tread­mill is a Gamer’s Work­out Haven (VIDEO)

2010-08-11 20:50:01

(TrendHunter.com) Gor­don von Steiner is quickly becom­ing one of my favorite pho­tog­ra­phers. Why? Well, after a look at the Gor­don von Steiner Osheaga Music Fes­ti­val pic­tures, he may become one of yours

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Styl­ish Con­cert­goer Pho­tog­ra­phy — Gor­don von Steiner’s Osheaga Music Fes­ti­val Series Rocks (GALLERY)

2010-08-11 17:37:59

(TrendHunter.com) iPod kitchens, upcy­cled stereos and mold­able music. Today we hunt: AUDIOSCOPIC INNOVATION — Sprint firsts in Musi­cal Technology.

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Audio­scopic Inno­va­tion — Sprint Firsts in Musi­cal Tech­nol­ogy (THTV)

2010-08-11 05:19:05

? With the advent of DIY online tools, the job has become quite easy for peo­ple to cre­ate their own logo designs and web­sites. Self reliance is the tool that every busi­ness­man is seek­ing, espe­cially if you are an entre­pre­neur. And what greater thing it is to cre­ate a per­son­al­ized web­site for FREE

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WIX.com – The FREE Web­site Builder!

2010-08-11 03:39:01

(TrendHunter.com) At the Mad Decent Block Party at South Street Sea­port in New York City, pho­tog­ra­pher Sam Horine of NY Mag cap­tured some of the music event’s most styl­ish trend­set­ters in a slideshow appro­pri­ately named…

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Block Party Style — Sam Horine Cap­tures Some of New York City’s Most Fash­ion­able (GALLERY)

2010-08-10 17:37:14

Chance Encounter on the Tiber was an unex­pected urban exper­i­ment: 100 mov­able red chairs and a musi­cal per­for­mance on the Tiber River in Rome.

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Chance Encounter on the Tiber

2010-08-10 10:49:42

In an answer to the ongo­ing debate about whether next gen­er­a­tion tele­vi­sion will be pow­ered by the inter­net or exist­ing tele­vi­sion infra­struc­ture, Irish design stu­dio Notion have pro­posed MetaMir­ror , a vision of liv­ing room media that com­bines broad­cast­ing tech­nolo­gies with the power of meta­data, streamed via the inter­net to smart, hand­held devices and super­im­posed over the exist­ing image. Devel­op­ments in IPTV, the ubiq­uity capac­i­ta­tive touch sen­si­tiv­ity, and advance­ments in smart object recog­ni­tion are cited as dri­ving tech­nolo­gies. The con­text photo above, depict­ing a very famil­iar scene of screens upon screens , con­vinced us that this idea (or a ver­sion of it) is not so far fetched at all

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MetaMir­ror: Notion’s vision for the (near) future of TV

2010-08-10 06:34:03

? You know what tempts you in going into a retail out­let or a shop­ping store? I bet it’s the colos­sal and strik­ing ban­ners out­side the store, espe­cially the sign shout­ing SALE that lure you into going into a shop­ping frenzy. With­out doubts ban­ners and sig­nage play a vital role in pro­mot­ing your business.

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Esigns.com – Signs to build your business!

2010-08-10 05:48:28

A laser cut sub­sti­tute for a tra­di­tional vinyl record. Every year iPods and other mp3 play­ers push CDs fur­ther into obscu­rity, so it’s get­ting harder to remem­ber when vinyl records were stan­dard. Of course, vinyl records are still con­sid­ered the true stan­dard by many musi­cal purists.

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Laser Cut Record

2010-08-09 00:50:33

Archival Film: The Design Process Before Com­put­ers and 3d Here is a treat for all of the younger design­ers and mak­ers. Sit back and relax to the chirpy music as you are taken on a jour­ney through the design process, as it was before com­put­ers and dig­i­tal man­u­fac­tur­ing were a part of the game. Things cer­tainly have changed since those sunny days by the bay in the 1960’s.

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How we used to do it…

2010-08-08 19:41:03

This weeks VOTW is different.

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Video of the Week #59 — Mor­pho­logic Studios

2010-08-08 17:00:00

[ By Steve in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban Images . ] Blob Archi­tec­ture – some­times referred to as Blo­bi­tec­ture, Blo­bism or even Blo­bis­mus is a exceed­ingly organic type of archi­tec­ture that exhibits pro­foundly soft, rounded and curved dimen­sions. Orig­i­nat­ing in inflat­able build­ings, pre-fab plas­tic struc­tures and computer-assisted design exer­cises, Blob Archi­tec­ture has given the world some of its most dis­tinc­tive and mem­o­rable buildings

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Blo­bi­tec­ture: 11 Cool Ways Archi­tec­ture Gets A Round

2010-08-08 17:00:00

[ By Steve in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban Images . ] Blob Archi­tec­ture – some­times referred to as Blo­bi­tec­ture, Blo­bism or even Blo­bis­mus is a exceed­ingly organic type of archi­tec­ture that exhibits pro­foundly soft, rounded and curved dimen­sions. Orig­i­nat­ing in inflat­able build­ings, pre-fab plas­tic struc­tures and computer-assisted design exer­cises, Blob Archi­tec­ture has given the world some of its most dis­tinc­tive and mem­o­rable buildings

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Blo­bi­tec­ture: 11 Cool Ways Archi­tec­ture Gets A Round

2010-08-07 10:30:02

(TrendHunter.com) The NYLON Black­berry App has all the cool con­tent a young fash­ion­ista could ever desire. With up-to-the-minute news on celebs, fash­ion, beauty and music, you’ll know what’s going on in the world of pop…

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Hip Mag­a­zine Apps — The NYLON Black­berry App Will Keep You in the Know

2010-08-07 04:27:02

(TrendHunter.com) The Boom­box Speaker Cush­ion is a func­tional music player that dou­bles as a pil­low. The black and white col­ored cush­ion is designed to look like an old-school cas­sette player, mak­ing its users reminisce…

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Music Player Pil­lows — The Boom­box Speaker Cush­ion has a Dual Function

2010-08-07 02:02:02

(TrendHunter.com) These ‘Jer­sey Shore’ Music­Skins will bring the com­plete guido treat­ment to your iPhone, iPad, lap­top and iPod. The gad­get pro­tec­tion com­pany has cre­ated seven designs that will have your fists pumping.…

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Guid­ofied Com­puter Acces­sories — The ‘Jer­sey Shore’ Music­Skins Designs for Lap­tops & iPads (GALLERY)

2010-08-06 22:42:02

(TrendHunter.com) The incred­i­ble Audiob­ullys ‘Only Man’ music video was entirely cap­tured from beneath the band’s feet. Pro­vid­ing the viewer with an inter­est­ing van­tage point, the inter­est­ing designs of the band’s shoes…

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Dis­torted View­point Vids — The Audiob­ullys ‘Only Man’ Music Video is Shot from the Ground Up (VIDEO)

2010-08-06 02:22:28

We love case stud­ies espe­cially because we can see how design­ers and dig­i­tal artists come up with a ideas and make them come true. So in this post we are very pleased to share another great case study or a brief process exam­i­na­tion sent by one of our most admired dig­i­tal artists out there, Justin Maller in which he shows to us how he cre­ated the Ursus art­work. Pok­ing around my fold­ers, I real­ized I had all of these WIP images of this piece lying around, so I thought I’d share the evo­lu­tion of this piece I cre­ated for The Depth­core Collective’s new chap­ter ‘Mythic’

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Ursus — Brief Process Exam­i­na­tion by Justin Maller

2010-08-05 07:12:10

The Lumi­nar­ium, a mod­ern inter­na­tional art group, just released their newest exhi­bi­tion. It is the 11th and — record­ing to them — their biggest yet. Get an inside view of my favorite designs of this chapter.

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The Lumi­nar­ium Chap­ter 11: Illu­mi­nate 2

2010-08-05 02:38:02

(TrendHunter.com) Geeks who get down and dirty in the bed­room will love the hilar­i­ous new music video for ‘Sit on my Face­book.’ After you see this video you may never look at Twit­ter or Face­book the same again. ‘Sit on…

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Social Media Love Songs — Sit on My Face­book Will Make You Scream Yahoo! (VIDEO)

2010-08-05 02:02:02

(TrendHunter.com) If you want to learn to read music easy and fast, then you want the MusicReader.

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Elec­tronic Music Edu­ca­tion Tools — The Musi­cReader Will Have You Con­duct­ing an Orches­tra in No Time

2010-08-04 23:21:02

(TrendHunter.com) This ‘Heart Cham­ber Orches­tra’ col­lab­o­ra­tion between musi­cal col­lec­tive ‘PURE’ and inter­ac­tive artist Erich Berger will have you awestruck.

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Heart­beat Sym­phonies — The Heart Cham­ber Orches­tra Com­bines Musi­cal Arts and Anatomy (VIDEO)

2010-08-04 21:39:46

It’s only their third album, but The Sub­urbs by Arcade Fire ($8) could have come from a band with four times as many albums under their belts. Still heav­ily Boss-influenced,…

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The Sub­urbs by Arcade Fire

2010-08-04 19:10:11

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds lead­ing design blogs. Hav­ing inter­viewed a bulk of the most infa­mous cre­ative geniuses, we want to use our poten­tial to intro­duce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

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The World Col­labs #4 — with Joao Oliveira

2010-08-02 21:22:25

This post is part of our daily series of posts show­ing the most inspir­ing images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writ­ers and users. If you want to par­tic­i­pate and share your graphic design inspi­ra­tion, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Daily Inspi­ra­tion” in the sub­ject, and don’t for­get to send your Abduzeedo user­name; or via Twit­ter send­ing to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If pos­si­ble use the HTML code: Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspi­ra­tions? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com al b sure akuji rocks Best Book­marks chilly­weed Conio­tarie Dan Magus Edward McGowan Fabi­ano Eugene Kim Fabio VISION from Alexan­der Går­den­berg on Vimeo

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Daily Inspi­ra­tion #577

2010-08-02 21:00:50

I saw this stop-motion video, called The Pen Story , on Swiss­Miss and couldn’t wait to share it with you. Appar­ently, when mak­ing it, they shot 60,000 pic­tures and devel­oped 9,600 prints. Wow! I love this sort of thing

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The Pen Story

2010-08-02 21:00:50

I saw this stop-motion video, called The Pen Story , on Swiss­Miss and couldn’t wait to share it with you. Appar­ently, when mak­ing it, they shot 60,000 pic­tures and devel­oped 9,600 prints

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The Pen Story

2010-08-02 17:47:42

Very smart. An easy around-your-neck iPod Shuf­fle and head­phone solu­tion. $27 Via Behance Pod à porter is the eas­i­est way to wear your music – even if you’re not wear­ing much

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Pod à Porter

2010-08-02 16:00:15

The Wire­less Stream­ing Music Cen­tre has an aus­pi­cious design (check float­ing iPod Touch) which could work in its favor among a sea of “me too” competitors.

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Stream Music From A Float­ing iPod

2010-08-02 07:24:42

Mark August 25th on your cal­en­dar and set it as a date to party hard with Yanko Design! The trendy Tem­ple in San Fran­cisco is play­ing host to Ubergizmo’s Dig­i­tal Sum­mer 2010 , and promises to be the most hap­pen­ing bash! Social­ize with like-minds from the fields of pho­tog­ra­phy, fash­ion, art, and tech­nol­ogy or sim­ply come and meet us and explore the designer prod­ucts at the Yanko Design booth.

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Party Hard At Dig­i­tal Sum­mer And Meet Up With Yanko Design

2010-08-01 16:53:44

News Check out Archinect’s lat­est Show­case Plas­tic House a pri­vate res­i­dence located in Dublin, Ire­land. Twenty years after the pass­ing of ADA: Mon­ica Ponce de Leon dis­cusses a coun­ter­point; uni­ver­sal design with NPR’s “All Things Con­sid­ered”. To help boost the “pro­gres­sive upsurge” of their coun­try, Geor­gian gov­ern­ment selects a curvy build­ing design to serve as a chech­point between Geor­gia and Turkey at Sarpi.

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Editor’s Picks #170

2010-08-01 09:53:02

(TrendHunter.com) Incor­po­rat­ing dif­fer­ent forms of media into music videos adds an inter­est­ing dimen­sion for the viewer, allow­ing for a bet­ter over­all view­ing expe­ri­ence. Within this Arman Bohn ‘Brain Games’ video, the…

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Game-Designed Music Videos — The Arman Bohn ‘Brain Games’ Video Was Drawn With the Nin­tendo DSi (VIDEO)

2010-08-01 03:37:01

(TrendHunter.com) PBN Audio would like to enhance your musi­cal expe­ri­ence with their new Mon­tana WAS-2 speaker. This pro­vides unmatched musi­cal qual­ity for the low price of only $66,500. I can’t think of many homes that…

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Ultra-Expensive Sound Sys­tems — The Mon­tana WAS-2 Pro­vides Supe­rior Sound for a High Price (GALLERY)

2010-07-31 03:30:22

Print a pro­gram­ma­ble mes­sage on any wall. Felix Vor­re­iter from Ger­may made the txtBOMBER, a Arduino-powered hand held device that con­trols seven mark­ers to print a pro­grammed mes­sage on any wall or other flat sur­face. The mark­ers move up and down, draw­ing dashes that com­bine to form the letters

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Arduino Pow­ered Hand­held Wall Printer

2010-07-30 17:26:32

We’re not about to say that rap is dead, but the pro­lif­er­a­tion of money-obsessed MCs has cer­tainly hurt the game in past years. Teflon Don by Rick Ross ($8) is… Visit Uncrate for the full post.

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Teflon Don by Rick Ross

2010-07-30 16:59:32

For this Sites of the Week, we’re announc­ing the win­ners for the WeGraph­ics give­away, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as iFont­Maker and Score Fac­tory. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep send­ing your sug­ges­tions to us and we will be more than happy to fea­ture your site. About Give­away Last week we lauched a give­away from WeGraphics .

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Sites of the Week #113 — Win­ners Giveaway

2010-07-30 02:07:01

(TrendHunter.com) There is so much to pho­to­graph in the world, and Bar­tosz Lud­win­ski has taken the bul­let by shoot­ing wild and raunchy par­ties. This is prob­a­bly a dream job for many of you out there: hot ladies, music,…

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Epic Par­ty­ing Pho­tog­ra­phy — Bar­tosz Ludwinski’s Friends Party Way Harder Than You (GALLERY)

2010-07-29 19:05:01

Folks, you have to won­der why no one else thought of this a long time ago: This head­phones pack­ag­ing design (released last month by the Euro­pean branch of Pana­sonic) was designed by Berlin-based Scholz & Friends , a cre­ative agency whose motto is “Sur­prise! Con­vince!” As Scholz & Friends explained to the Col­oribus Global Adver­tis­ing Archive , The selec­tion of ear­phones is huge and the prod­ucts are often inter­change­able. Only a pack­ag­ing with a clear visual idea is able to stand out at the mar­ket among the generic pack­ag­ings of the com­pe­ti­tion. …The ear­phones show at first sight for whom they are made: for pas­sion­ate music lovers

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In a cat­e­gory of vastly sim­i­lar prod­ucts, Scholz & Friends’s clever pack­age design quickly dis­tin­guishes the product

2010-07-29 19:00:23

I’ve men­tioned sev­eral times before that pho­tog­ra­phy is one of the most nat­ural com­ple­ments to your skills as a designer. We design­ers are in con­stant need of very spe­cific imagery and this can and does lead to hours of search­ing, unnec­es­sary stock fees and ulti­mately the use of imagery that has a high like­li­hood of being found on the projects of count­less other designers.

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The Designer’s Guide to Tak­ing Bet­ter Photos

2010-07-29 17:00:32

[ By Marc in Gad­gets & Geek Art , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism . ] I feel great joy when I stum­ble upon a mun­dane, every­day object, that is always dull, and find that some­one has taken the time to cus­tomize it in an inter­est­ing and excit­ing way

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A Pen Might­ier Than Any Sword

2010-07-29 10:08:40

Record label Ghostly will debut it’s new label release for­mat, the Totem, with the release of Matthew Dear’s upcom­ing album Black City . More than a sym­bol or sou­venir, these totems are an exper­i­ment in dig­i­tal music deliv­ery. pro­vid­ing a phys­i­cal key to vir­tual content.

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Ghostly and Boym Part­ners devise a new way to deliver dig­i­tal music

2010-07-29 08:16:06

Dobak Zsolt is a young designer from Budapest, Hungary.

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Intro­duc­ing Dobak Zsolt

2010-07-29 03:55:02

(TrendHunter.com) Rock­a­billy is known as the roots of what we know as mod­ern rock and roll music, which is why it con­tin­ues to be a piv­otal influ­ence on cul­ture today. If you’ve got a lot of rocker edge (or even just a…

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10 Rock­a­billy Come­backs — From Hal­lu­cino­genic Wardrobes to Steam­punk Hot Rods (CLUSTER)

2010-07-28 23:12:30

Few month ago we started our new monthly design con­test called “The World Collabs”.

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The World Col­labs #3 — Submissions

2010-07-28 18:00:02

(TrendHunter.com) The World of Color is a bril­liantly chore­o­graphed mul­ti­me­dia water and light show. It com­bines nearly 1,200 pow­er­ful foun­tains, lasers, fire, fog, Dis­ney music in sur­round sound and pro­jected images in…

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Nigh­tas­tic Water Shows — ‘World of Color’ New After-Dark Enter­tain­ment at Dis­ney­land (VIDEO)

2010-07-28 16:38:01

(TrendHunter.com) Lily Vanilli, Cura­tor of Cake for The Mad Artists Tea Party, is known for her home-baked cake sculp­tures, but her lat­est work was a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the band Ash. The Ash ‘Car­nal Love’ music video, directed…

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Heart-Eating Music Videos — The Ash ‘Car­nal Love’ Video Fea­tures Lily Vanilli’s Cre­ations (VIDEO)

2010-07-28 11:30:46

It’s not a hot-blonde-Sony or gor­geous Apples, but plain sim­ple laws of physics that causes this Nokia to get an erec­tion! The phys­i­cal kind! I mean the Kinetic kind! The con­cept is this, for every incom­ing call, text, email or alarm, the phone gets super excited and gets…standing tall! Yup the brief was to make the phone as play­ful as possible…as if a vibra­tion mode was not enough! And if it’s not the right per­son call­ing or the alarm too soon…simply tap the phone back to deflate the …erec­tion! Umm…cold shower won’t do! On a more seri­ous note, here’s more info on the Nokia Kinetic – a seri­ously play­ful mobile phone for 2012. The rea­son behind the erec­tion is an elec­tro­mag­net in the base of the phone that allows a weight to be shifted, caus­ing the phone to stand up

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What Causes Nokia Erections!